Butterfly pre-school High Easter

We would like to wish all the Daddy’s at preschool a Happy Fathers Day for Sunday, we hope you all have a lovely day.

Here are a few things of what we have been up to.

Have a lovely weekend.

Today one of the children brought her pet tortoise into preschool.
The children took it in turns to feed and stroke Sid, they then followed him around preschool as he was very keen to explore the home area.
We were all amazed how fast he walked.
The children talked about Sid all day, we were all very lucky & grateful he came to see us.

The children asked if we could bake today.
We looked in the cupboard at our ingredients and decide with this cold damp day we should make something to warm us up.
They all worked together to make fruit crumble.

We are now taking bookings for our summer holiday club, please call, text, or email if you would like to make a booking.

We have been celebrating cultural diversity this week.
The children have good understanding that we are all different, have similarities, we are all important and we all belong.
The children used a mirror to look at the colour of their eyes, hair and skin to draw their self portrait.
They then talked confidently to each other about their differences.

Also this week we have been planting seeds for plant something day on Tuesday.
The children followed instructions well on how to plant their seed, we talked about the life cycle of a flowering plant.
We can’t wait to see the progress of the plants on tapestry.🌸

Today is world Bee Day so for this we have explored various activities on this topic.
We learnt many facts such as Bees have 4 wings and there are 25,000 different species of bees.

They children enjoyed exploring the sensory tray which was filled with yellow and black rice and honeycomb made from pasta, they used spoons and scoops to pour rice through the pasta.

The children’s favourite activity was baking honey biscuits and making honey chocolates.
We all had the opportunity to taste the honey.

Today the children chose to make strawberry mousse, they selected it from one of the recipe cards from the book area.
They were fascinated to see that it was made from jelly powder and carefully listened and followed the instructions on what they needed to do next.

The children listened carefully to information and facts about VE Day, one child telling us “they fought to protect us”.
We made Union Jack coloured flags to display in our windows at home and talked about what countries are in the United Kingdom.

We observed the children during their ‘home corner’ play today, there was talk about dips they had at their bbq’s they have had at home.
We decided to go with this and made a refreshing Tzatziki dip with them.
They all had a turn to chop, grate, squeeze and mix the ingredients.
Some of the children tasted it at snack time and said it was “nice”, “tasty” and “smells like cucumber”.

Following on from the children choosing what we bake, some of them asked if they could bake a cake to take home for their families, what a lovely way to encourage sharing.
They worked together to weigh, add, mix & zest the ingredients, they are getting really good at cracking eggs too.
The lemon drizzle cake smelt and looks amazing, we hope it’s enjoyed by all.